In Wood and others v William Ball Ltd, the EAT holds that, at the initial hearing of an equal value claim, the employment tribunal should first ask itself whether or not it should commission an independent expert's report.

In Wood v William Ball Ltd the EAT
has ruled that an employment tribunal cannot determine that two jobs are not of
equal value without giving the parties an opportunity to adduce their own
evidence.

The Equal Pay Act 1970 was amended in 1996 so
as to allow employment tribunals to determine the question of whether work is
of equal value themselves without referring the matter to an independent
expert.

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